Monday, April 7, 2014

Krang

I’d like to say I was still a kid when I started watching
the Ninja Turtles cartoon, but the truth is it was probably my early teens. I started
watching the cartoon and reading the comics based on the cartoon before I discovered
the original Eastman and Laird comics. The Eastman and Laird books are vastly
superior comics but I did enjoy how wacky the cartoon was.

And while Shredder and the Foot Soldiers were kind of cool and bad-assed villains,
I always thought that Krang was just ridiculous. A little pink blob living
inside a fat, bald and ugly robot. And while part of me thinks they could have
at least tried to make Krang’s mechanical body look cool, I kinda like that
they didn’t.

My original sketch of Krang turned out well. I wanted to
make him look a little meaner than I remembered him looking and I added a fink
style tongue just to spice it up a bit.

Colors were pretty easy, just lifted straight from the old
cartoon.

This is the painted version. It’s Acrylic on canvas 12 x 16.
It looks a bit better in person, one of these days I’m gonna have to get a
better camera than the shitty point and click one I have now. I like it but I
much prefer the photoshop colored version above.